[Phanuthier]

I became a Flames fan in Nov 2006-ish. I don't know why, but for some reason, I came across a hockey game while channel surfing, and Rick Tabaracci just made a pretty nice save. So, I stuck on the channel, and a couple minutes later, Theo Fleury did his patented off-wing shot between the defenders legs, had another goal that game, and the Flames won 7-2 vs Pheonix. I thought "damn, this team is pretty good." The Flames won the next 2 games (I believe) pretty much by a blowout, and I got hooked and thought this was a awsome team. I believe one of those was the Todd Simpson knee-on-knee with Peter Forsberg, and I guess being a company-man, the critisism helped me align with the Calgary team even more. The Flames then went on to lose the next 7 games, miss the playoffs (1997) and miss the playoffs for the next 6 seasons as well.